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Pro-ISIS Group Hacks NJ Transit Police Website: Officials

A pro-Islamic State Twitter account published a list of NJ Transit officers and their personal information, encouraging supporters to carry out "lone wolf" attacks on them, according to sources and published reports. Ray Villeda reports. (Published Wednesday, March 30, 2016)

A pro-ISIS Twitter account published a list of New Jersey Transit officers' names and personal information, encouraging supporters to carry out "lone wolf" attacks on them, according to sources and published reports.

The group known as the Caliphate Cyber Army (CCA) first released the personal details of 55 officers in early March after hacking into the NJ Transit police website, Newsweek reported. The newsmagazine saw the list of personal details, which included home addresses, phone numbers, names and ranks.

The Twitter account that linked out to the list has since been suspended, but another tweet referencing the list was sent Monday, sources told NBC 4 New York. It's not clear who sent the tweet.

The original file was uploaded to an Arabic-language file sharing site on March 2 and was downloaded 300 times by March 5, the Daily Mail reports.